Something Going On? MRO's Ell -- #17876 -- July 22, 2017

There is nothing in the file report (no sundry form) and nothing over at FracFocus to explain this. Note a one-day production of 2,176 bbls for a stripper well that was producing about 300 bbls/month at best.

• 17876, 288, MRO, Ell 31-1H, Murphy Creek, t5/09; cum 79K 5/17;

Monthly production data:

Pool	Date	Days	BBLS Oil	Runs	BBLS Water	MCF Prod	MCF Sold	Vent/Flare
BAKKEN	5-2017	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
BAKKEN	4-2017	1	2176	2177	0	233	0	0
BAKKEN	3-2017	1	1	55	0	0	0	0
BAKKEN	2-2017	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
BAKKEN	1-2017	3	30	70	13	27	0	12
BAKKEN	12-2016	31	337	333	200	280	56	2
BAKKEN	11-2016	30	219	191	141	299	82	14
BAKKEN	10-2016	31	251	354	160	326	94	19

Making North Dakota Great -- Unemployment Rate At 2.5% -- July 22, 2017

At The Bismarck Tribune, data points:

• June data
• 2.5% unemployment in ND
• up 0.5% from previous month
• down 1% from one year ago (June, 2016)
• national rate: 4.5%

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Easy One

What is the link between Disneyland's Great Moments With Mr Lincoln and The Trouble With Harry. 

Largest Petrochemical Plant Of Its Kind To Be Built Near Houston; LyondellBasell; $2.4 Billion -- Making America Great Again -- 2,500 Construction Jobs -- July 21, 2017

Updates

July 22, 2017: after posting the LyondellBasell article below, I thought back to this article just a couple of days earlier:

RBN Energy: Really? New US cracker demand, exports will strain ethane supply. Really? Remarkable. Absolutely remarkable.

The last couple of years have been a wild ride for the U.S. ethane market, but look out ahead.  It’s going to get crazy. 

The onslaught of new, ethane-only crackers is upon us at the same time overseas exports are expected to ramp up. 

At first glance, it might appear there is enough ethane to meet all that demand, coming from molecules that today are being rejected — that is, sold as natural gas rather than liquid ethane. But the big question — will it be enough? Because not all that rejected ethane has access to pipeline capacity needed to get it to market, at least not right now. In today's blog, we begin a new series on rising ethane demand, how the new demand will be met, and what it all means for ethane prices.

Ethane is a unique market — it’s the only energy commodity that can morph from being sold as natural gas to being sold to petrochemical plants as a liquid feedstock.

Original Post

 

A huge "thank you" to the reader who sent me this. From Chron.com, the data points:

• Houston petrochemical company, LyondellBasell ("Pat, I would like to buy an 'L'.")
• to build a $2.4 billion plant near Houston Ship Channel
• would be the largest factory of its kind in the world
• 2,500 construction jobs; 160 permanent positions
• represents a continuation of the petrochemical boom along the Gulf Coast
• of the $185 billion in petrochemical plants completed since 2010 or planned through 2023, $70 billion of those along the Texas Gulf Coast
• direct result of the shale-drilling boom which produced large amounts of ethane

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US Will Dominate Energy -- Rick Perry

For various reasons I did not want to post this story but on second thought there were some important points to bring out. The reader who sent me this article mentioned this about the journalist who interviewed Rick Perry for the article below: Ms Zito was one of the few reporters that covered the election correctly; she was on the ground in western Pennsylvania and got a great feel for Trump's support.

From The Washington Examiner, meeting with SecDOE Rick Perry outside Pittsburgh earlier this week:

BRUCETON, Pa. — The National Energy Technology Laboratory in suburban Pittsburgh is one of 17 government-funded national labs within the Department of Energy and is also part of a fascinating chapter in American history, not just in the development of energy, but also of science.

The complex, atop a rolling Appalachian ridge, once housed the head of the Ordnance Engineering Group for the Manhattan Project and the researchers and scientists who helped design the trigger for the first atomic bomb. SecDOE Rick Perry visited for a tour of the lab that is working to expand the possibilities for horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing for natural gas in shale. He praised work the lab is also doing to identify and extract rare-earth elements from coal and coal byproducts.

Two things come to mind immediately:

• the new attitude in Washington: America's exceptionalism
• fracking: for the US, no looking back

Random Look At Statoil Roscoe, #17755, In Banks Oil Field -- July 21, 2017

Link here.

Jump In Production, BR, CCU Boxcar, #17756 -- July 21, 2017

Idle chatter regarding a well with jump in production about six-and-a-half years after the original frack.

This well was originally drilled/fracked/completed back in September, 2009. Note the incredible jump in production in April, 2016. It was obviously re-fracked but there is no sundry form showing a re-frack and there is no data over at FracFocus. There is a sundry form regarding a flare in 2016, but only because there was a minor mishap at the time.

• 17756, 550, BR, CCU Boxcar 21-15H, Corral Creek, t10/09; cum 300K 5/17;

There are suggestions coming out of the Bakken that the well progression in the Bakken is this:

• original frack
• "mini-frack" at five to seven years after original  frack
•  full re-frack at 10 to 15 years after original frack

I cannot take credit for coming up with this "progression." A reader sent me a link some months ago that put me onto this. The link was to a "proposal" made by an oil service company in the Bakken that was released in 2015. 

If the "mini-frack" was "simply" a workover, there might not be any need for a sundry form, or any need to send data to FracFocus. I don't know. Just idle chatter. But I am coming across any number of examples of where it appears a well has clearly been re-fracked and FracFocus has no data. Maybe the paperwork "is in the mail." Or maybe we could call this a "no-sundry-form-work-over" (NSFWO).

Disclaimer: this is simply idle chatter. Do not quote me on any of this. I may be missing something obvious or misreading something. If this is important to you, go to the source.

Selected production profile:

BAKKEN	1-2017	31	7034	7047	2132	7096	7078	0
BAKKEN	12-2016	28	7334	7321	3341	6526	6511	0
BAKKEN	11-2016	30	6943	6858	2097	6587	6572	0
BAKKEN	10-2016	31	6716	6453	2524	6978	6963	0
BAKKEN	9-2016	30	0	257	5165	8265	8251	0
BAKKEN	8-2016	31	8991	8846	4863	7118	6465	642
BAKKEN	7-2016	8	2348	2335	1231	1653	1649	0
BAKKEN	6-2016	12	6309	6341	2888	4984	4984	0
BAKKEN	5-2016	20	9001	9102	3833	5798	5798	0
BAKKEN	4-2016	21	16679	16681	8221	10011	9072	940
BAKKEN	3-2016	3	917	1095	398	681	480	200
BAKKEN	2-2016	7	4605	4435	1899	3096	0	3079
BAKKEN	1-2016	1	45	0	0	2	0	0
BAKKEN	12-2015	1	3	0	13	4	0	2
BAKKEN	11-2015	1	17	0	83	2	0	0
BAKKEN	10-2015	25	1231	1359	213	88	26	0
BAKKEN	9-2015	30	1437	1346	261	79	5	0
BAKKEN	8-2015	31	1603	1776	277	128	51	0